EDP2602

Practicum studies 2

Lecturer-in-charge to be advised

6 points - 2 hours per week - Second semester - Peninsula

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to undertake teaching responsibilities and to practise basic teaching skills in primary classrooms for daily periods ranging from two hours to a full day in duration; discuss and compare their practicum experiences with the experiences of other students, reflecting on the teaching and class management styles they have encountered, exploring why teachers utilise different approaches and strategies; discuss and practise strategies associated with introducing and closing lessons, explaining, questioning, using reinforcement strategies, sequencing instruction and evaluating lesson outcomes; examine and discuss issues of pupil safety and welfare; demonstrate awareness of the factors which create stress in teaching professionals, and strategies for avoiding stress.

Synopsis This subject provides the opportunity for students to have further experience in basic lesson planning and to consider and practise selected teaching skills. The subject gives students the opportunity to re-acquaint themselves with the primary school; engage in extended observation of practicing teachers in functioning classrooms, and to undertake basic teaching tasks, incorporated selected teaching skills introduced in lectures. Additional sessions focus students attention on issues relating to curriculum planning and development, including the preparation of weekly units of instruction stemming from the Curriculum and Standards Framework series.

Assessment Examination: 50% - Portfolio: 50% - Eighty per cent attendance - Hurdle: satisfactory standard in all assessment items

Recommended texts

Barry K and King L. Beginning teaching Social Science Press, 1993
Moyles Janet (ed.) Beginning teaching: Beginning learning in primary education Open University Press, 1995
Ministry of Education Curriculum frameworks P-10 Melbourne Government Printer, 1987
Tauber Robert T Classroom management. Theory and practice 2nd edn, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1995

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